HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- "Nobody's Fool" star
Paul Newman will compete in the 33rd Rolex 24, the 24-hour sports car
endurance race at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday and Sunday,
Feb. 4-5. Newman will be a member of the Roush Racing team.
Roush's lead car will be numbered "70," in honor of
Newman's participation and his age.

The race is the opening event of the International Motor Sports
Association's Exxon World Sports Car Championship and Supreme GT
Series. After a one-year absence at the event, Roush Racing, which won
the top GT class in the Rolex 24 for nine straight years 1985 to
'93, is returning with a Ford Mustang Cobra similar to the car that
won in Roush's last appearance at the race.

Newman finished 26th overall in the 1979 Rolex 24, driving a Dick
Barbour Racing Porsche Turbo. The actor, who began sports car racing in
the mid-'70s, initiated the Rolex program with Roush. Through the
late '80s he was a regular competitor in the SCCA Trans-Am Series.
Newman is a four-time winner of the Sports Club of America National
Championship, GTI Class, Road Atlanta. He has also taken part in the
24-hour Le Mans race, in which he and his teammates came in second.

Practice and front row qualifying for the 33rd Rolex 24 begins on
Thursday, Feb. 2. Final practice and qualifying will be Friday, Feb. 3.
The race will begin at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4. The Rolex 24 is an
annual twice-around-the-clock test of man and machine against the clock
and the demanding 3.56-mile Daytona road course.

Newman was named Best Actor of 1994 by the National Society of Film
Critics as well as the New York Film Critics Circle for
"Nobody's Fool." A Hollywood veteran whose career spans
four decades, Newman is one of the film industry's most beloved
stars. A seven-time Academy Award nominee, Newman received a special
honorary Oscar in 1985 and a Best Actor Oscar the following year for his
performance in "The Color of Money." The films for which he
was Oscar-nominated include "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "The
Hustler," "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke,"
"Absence of Malice" and "The Verdict." Last year,
he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In "Nobody's Fool," North Bath, N.Y. is a hard-luck
town, and nobody in the place has had harder luck than Donald
"Sully" Sullivan (Paul Newman). At 60 years old, Sully is a
construction worker with no steady work, no love, no money. He does
have an estranged dysfunctional family, a cretin for a best friend, and
a mangled kneecap that is refusing to heal. He also has an acrid sense
of humor that has enabled him to laugh through 60 years' worth of
the dead-end life he's been leading.

Now Sully finally may have a chance to turn things around and piece
his world and his family back together. Most of the eccentric locals of
North Bath are betting against him, including his occasional employer
Carl Roebuck and Carl's attractive, frustrated wife (Melanie
Griffith). But his eighth-grade teacher Miss Beryl (Jessica Tandy), who
is now his landlady, thinks her former student may have one last glimmer
of potential left in him.

Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, and Melanie Griffith star in
Paramount's "Nobody's Fool," based on the recently
published novel by Richard Russo. Robert Benton ("Kramer vs.
Kramer," "Places in the Heart") is director/screenwriter.
Scott Rudin and Arlene Donovan are the producers, and Michael Hausman is
executive producer of the presentation of the Motion Picture Group of
Paramount Pictures in association with Capella International.

MPAA-rated R, "Nobody's Fool" is presented in Dolby
Stereo at selected theaters. Read the Vintage book. Soundtrack album
available on Milan CDs and cassettes.

Paramount Pictures is part of the entertainment operations of Viacom
Inc.

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